Al H. Ringleb

Roger E. Meiners

Frances L. Edwards

This popular book combines a traditional case focus with clear and concise coverage of a wide range of up-to-date topics. Cases are edited, with over 40% new to this edition. New Juris Prudence? feature highlights humorous or odd cases and legal events related to the subject at hand. Internet resources and citations have been incorporated.

The Legal Environment of Business

Examine the practical structure and function of today's legal system from the perspective of the professional business practitioner with Meiners/Ringleb/Edwards' popular THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 14E. This edition highlights law and regulatory areas of the legal environment that are most relevant and important in business today. This edition's traditional case focus is updated with almost 40% new cases to reflect today's legal changes. Court cases summarize background facts and present case decisions in the words of the courts, but the authors have carefully edited cases to focus only on key issues relevant to understanding the legal reasoning. You examine a range of legal topics with business-specific examples and meaningful cases that direct your attention to key points of law. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Pierre Desrochers

Andrew P. Morriss

Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. The conclusion makes it abundantly clear that the legacy of Silent Spring is highly problematic. Despite her reputation as a careful writer widely praised for building her arguments on science and facts, Carson's bestseller contained significant errors and sins of omission. Much of what was presented as certainty then was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.

The False Crises of Rachel Carson

Silent Spring at 50

Richard L. Stroup

Hundreds of hazardous waste sites are on the Superfund National Priority List in the United States, and thousands more could become eligible. The Superfund has spent or ordered the spending of billions of dollars, with little apparent impact on human health risks. While public perception of the real or imagined hazardous nature of consumer and industrial substances has resulted in widespread attention to the issue, lawsuits have proliferated with liability aimed at "deep pockets" instead of individual agents who may be responsible. Contributors to Cutting Green Tape carefully examine the existence and severity of the toxic harms and liability problem, the erosion of a clear tort legal system to settle disputes, and whether a clearly defined system of property rights could be developed to reduce the dangers from toxic substances. Cutting Green Tape rethinks the nature and impact of today's environmental bureaucracy. Rather than continue unworkable, cumbersome, and often contradictory regulations, Cutting Green Tape prescribes a clearer tort legal system to settle disputes and demonstrates that clearly defined environmental property rights would reduce the threat of toxic substances. Among the many topics addressed are: air toxins policy; pollution, damages, and tort law; risk assessment, insurance, and public information; protecting groundwater; regulation of carcinogens; contracting for health and safety; and toxin torts by government. The book converges on a central theme: when common law remedies, with their burden of proof and standards of evidence, are replaced by the legislatively mandated regulatory regimes described, a problem emerges. The bureaucratic "tunnel vision" described by Justice Stephen Breyer, tends to take over. The police powers of the state are given to bureaucratic decision makers who are limited only by the blunt instrument of political influence, rather than by the need to show harm or wrongdoing in an unbiased court (as the police are), or by a budget on expenditures set by the Congress (as most bureaus are). The excesses described in the chapters thus result not from incompetence in the bureaus, but from the expansive powers granted to decision makers who are tightly focused on the narrow mission they see before them.

Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law

Cutting Green Tape

With THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS, 13E readers can enjoy a practical introduction to the structure and function of the legal system from the perspective of the professional non-lawyer. While the authors note the system’s strong legal heritage, the book emphasizes the nuts and bolts of basic legal rules that most significantly impact business today. This popular book adapts a traditional case focus to address the unique needs of future and current business students. Clear, concise coverage of a wide range of timely topics introduces key points of law using business-specific examples and realistic scenarios. The authors’ readable style complements their extensive knowledge of domestic and international business to make this book a favorite among both professionals and learners new to the legal environment. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Roger E. Meiners

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